Functional Carbazole-Fullerene Complexes: A New Perspective of Carbazoles Acting as Nano-Octopus to Capture Globular Fullerenes

Xitong Liu, Wei Wang, Zhenqiang Fan, Wanning Huang, Lixing Luo, Canglei Yang, Jing Zhang, Jianfeng Zhao, Lei Zhang, Wei Huang

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Abstract

Fullerene host-guest constructs have attracted increasing attention owing to their molecular-level hybrid arrangements. However, the usage of simple carbazolic derivatives to bind with fullerenes is rare. In this research, three novel carbazolic derivatives, containing a tunable bridging linker and carbazole units for the capturing of fullerenes, are rationally designed. Unlike the general concave-convex interactions, fullerenes could interact with the planar carbazole subunits to form 2-dimensional hexagonal/quadrilateral cocrystals with alternating stacking patterns of 1 : 1 or 1 : 2 stoichiometry, as well as the controllable fullerene packing modes. At the meanwhile, good electron-transporting performances and significant photovoltaic effects were realized when a continuous C60⋅⋅⋅C60 interaction channel existed. The results indicate that the introduction of such carbazolic system into fullerene receptor would provide new insights into novel fullerene host-guest architectures for versatile applications.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10448-10455
Number of pages8
JournalChemistry - A European Journal
Volume27
Issue number40
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Jul 2021

Keywords

  • carbazole derivatives
  • fullerene receptor
  • host-guest systems
  • optoelectronic applications
  • self-assembly

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